Anti-drug hotline receives 150 calls in first week of operations

A NEW confidential phoneline to combat drug dealing received 150 calls in its first week in operation.

Dial To Stop Drug Dealing, which was launched last Wednesday week, is the first non-garda anti-drugs phoneline in the country.

Organisers yesterday hailed the first week as a great success and said more than 150 calls had been received and that a significant amount of new information had been passed on to local gardaí.